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An evocative memoir of a young Chinese girl growing up in conservative Tasmania in the 1950s.

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Jonathon Welch is an extremely gifted opera singer and entertainer, known from the ABC documentary, The Choir of Hard Knocks. Here he tells how he put the choir together, against incredible odds. He also reflects on his life, growing up in tough circumstances and the forces which shaped him and made him an advocate for social change.

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This enjoyable and revealing book - the first biography of Christo - is also the story of Dixter from 1910 to 2006, a unique unbroken history of one English house and one English garden spanning a century.

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"Bold, brash, and brimming with courage, Chuck Yeager burst onto the scene as a national hero in 1947, when he became the first to fly an airplane faster than the speed of sound. Yet even before his days as America's most famous test pilot, Yeager was a young fighter ace in the US Army Air Force, flying a P-51 Mustang over Nazi-occupied Europe. His exploits are the stuff of legend"--

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An elegant, concise and revealing portrait of the inimitable leader.

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William Harvey's theory of circulation was as controversial in its day as Copernicus' idea that the earth revolved around the sun. This title charts the rise of the yeoman's son who demolished beliefs held by anatomists since Roman times, going on to become arguably the greatest Englishman in the history of science after Darwin & Newton.

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Based on a selection of more than ten thousand internal documents of the Hughes organization, including three thousand pages of the billionaire's own handwritten memos, a revealing biography of the enigmatic Howard Hughes and his empire reveals his innermost activities and how he tried to buy the Am

Back home he was elect ed to the Irish Parliament and became a member of the Irish opposition His political interests became increasingly radical, and he was eventually embroiled in the Irish rebellion, dying in prison.

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Clara Kramer was a typical Polish Jewish teenager from a small town at outbreak of the Second World War. When the Germans invaded, her family home was given to a Volksdeutsch family, the Becks. Mr. Beck was known to be an alcoholic and a vocal anti-Semite.

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With the same wit and perception that have made his classes so memorable, and from his singular perspective as student, scholar, playwright, actor, and musician, Professor Cahn offers fascinating insights about learning of all kinds. Equally delightful are the candid reflectio...

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Yet, despite his huge public persona, the man himself remains a reserved and private figure.

Unflinching in its portrayal of the man behind the musical icon, this revealing biography marks fifty years of music from the first British pop star.

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Part of the author's autobiography, this first title recounts his solitary childhood in the English countryside, with affectionate portraits of his remote parents - an increasingly unconventional barrister father, whose blindness must never be mentioned, battling earwigs in the mutinous garden, and a vague and endlessly patient mother.

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Recounting his solitary childhood in the English countryside, the author presents affectionate portraits of his remote parents - an increasingly unconventional barrister father, whose blindness must never be mentioned, battling earwigs in the mutinous garden, and a vague and endlessly patient mother.

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Clint Eastwood-actor, director, composer, musician, and politician-is undeniably one of the most prolific and accomplished celebrities of the modern age. This book provides insights into Eastwood's life and entire career, from early television appearances to recent award-winning films.

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This candid and penetrating biography--the only one to be written with the cooperation of its famously reticent subject--illuminates the life and career of one of filmmaking's brightest yet most consistently misunderstood stars and directors. "Authoritative . . . highly nuanced".--"The New York Times". of photos.

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Former world boxing champion Danny Green's raw courage in the boxing ring and his humanity outside of it has made him one of Australia's most admired fighters. Here he documents the life of a modern day gladiator in a series of fast paced anecdotes which get straight to the heart of boxing.

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Clouds of White Sail tells the story of how early-twentieth-century fishermen from New England and the Maritime Provinces used the International Fishermens Races to reignite the publics love affair with the beauty of their ships and the romance of the sea in order to hold onto their way of life.

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Brian Clough is no ordinary football manager. He has walked on water at Nottingham Forest and through hellfire at one or two other clubs without once conceding an inch to anybody. This book traces Clough's life from early Middlesbrough days and the knee injury that crippled him as a centre forward onwards.

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West Indies legend Sir Clyde Walcott was one of the greatest cricketers of all time, but he was also an important administrator and activist. This first biography offers a detailed examination of his extraordinary life and achievements.